''Story of a Poor Young Man'' (Spanish:''La novela de un joven pobre'') is a 1942 Argentine
historical
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drama film
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directed by
Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera (23 September 1889 – 30 March 1956) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter who worked in Argentine film of the 1940s and 1950s. He was "one of the most important directors of the golden age of Argentine cinema".
He ...
and starring
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril (30 November 1912 – 13 August 1989 in Buenos Aires), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.
Early life
Born in Buenos Aires, del Carril ...
,
Santiago Gómez Cou
Santiago Gómez Cousillas (September 26, 1903 in Montevideo, Uruguay – March 24, 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a classic Uruguayan - Argentine actor who appeared in films between 1936 and 1980.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Cou move ...
and
Nélida Bilbao
Nélida Bilbao (1918 – August 1990) was an Argentine film actress.Richard p.280 She appeared in twenty-six films between 1938 and 1963.
Filmography
* ''Women Who Work'' (1938)
* ''Jettatore'' (1938)
* ''Mi suegra es una fiera'' (1939)
* ''Div ...
. It is based on the 1858 French
novel of the same title by
Octave Feuillet
Octave Feuillet (11 July 1821 – 29 December 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. His work stands midway between the romanticists and the realists. He is renowned for his "distinguished and lucid portraiture of life", depictions of fem ...
, which was
later adapted again in 1968.
[Goble p.155] The film's sets were designed by
Juan Manuel Concado
Juan Manuel Concado (died May 14, 1989) was an Argentine art director.Landro & Speroni p.24 He designed the sets for more than ninety films during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema.
Selected filmography
* ''Dancing'' (1933)
* '' Mother Gloria'' ...
. It was released during what is considered to be the
Golden Age of Argentine Cinema
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The Argentine film industry has histor ...
.
Synopsis
In the 1850s a young man returns to his family home in
Buenos Aires
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to discover that his father is financially ruined.
Cast
*
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril (30 November 1912 – 13 August 1989 in Buenos Aires), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.
Early life
Born in Buenos Aires, del Carril ...
*
Santiago Gómez Cou
Santiago Gómez Cousillas (September 26, 1903 in Montevideo, Uruguay – March 24, 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a classic Uruguayan - Argentine actor who appeared in films between 1936 and 1980.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Cou move ...
*
Nélida Bilbao
Nélida Bilbao (1918 – August 1990) was an Argentine film actress.Richard p.280 She appeared in twenty-six films between 1938 and 1963.
Filmography
* ''Women Who Work'' (1938)
* ''Jettatore'' (1938)
* ''Mi suegra es una fiera'' (1939)
* ''Div ...
*
Alberto Terrones
Alberto Terrones (; 1894–1957) was an Argentine film and theater actor, with an extensive filmography.
Filmography
* ''Mercado de abasto'' (1955)
* ''Misión extravagante'' (1954)
* '' Barrio gris'' (1954)
* ''Una ventana a la vida'' (1953)
* ' ...
*
Consuelo Abad
*
Armando Bó
Armando Bó (3 May 19148 October 1981) was an Argentine film actor, director, producer, screenwriter and score composer of the classic era. He is mostly known for his drama and sexploitation films of the 1960s and 1970s starring his favorite ...
*
Elda Dessel
Elda Dessel (1925 – 17 September 2010) was an Argentine actress.
She began her career in the early 1940s, after being selected by director Luis Bayon Herrera to join the Establecimientos Filmadores Argentinos. In the early years, she made film ...
*
Francisco Pablo Donadio
*
Francisco López Silva
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name '' Franciscus''.
Nicknames
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father o ...
*
Carlos Perelli
*
Julio Scarcella
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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1942 films
Argentine historical drama films
1940s historical drama films
1940s Spanish-language films
Films directed by Luis Bayón Herrera
Films set in Buenos Aires
Films set in the 1850s
Films based on French novels
Films scored by Alejandro Gutiérrez del Barrio
Argentine black-and-white films
1942 drama films
1940s Argentine films
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